The History of Geology Group

Dr Beverly Bergman takes up the story of the 'Nightingale Hospital' that was mentioned briefly in the 2020 HOGG AGM talk on Brunel: the Geologist. This pioneering pre-fabricated building was designed by Brunel and shipped out to the Dardanelles. The talk will focus on the selection of the site for the hospital and the survey that was carried out by John Brunton, Brunel's engineer on the project.

2020 marks one hundred years since the publication of the Geological Survey map of Anglesey. The memoir ‘The Geology of Anglesey’ was published the year before. Both these were the work of Edward Greenly, with the support of his very able wife, Annie, over the previous 25 years to map the geology of Anglesey in great detail. Greenly was the master of mapping at six inches to the mile, and he would produce a book on ‘Geological Surveying’ a decade later that would become a standard in how to do geological mapping.

HOGG 25th Anniversary Meeting organised jointly with the Yorkshire Philosophical Society and York Museums Trust.

This meeting will comprise a day of presentations (Thursday 11th July) followed by a field day (Friday 12th) featuring a walking tour, taking in sites linked with the history of geology around the city, as well as Hutton’s Section on Salisbury Crags.